(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated voices in modern American literature, used her poetry as a profound medium to explore themes of identity, resilience, love, and the ...

The only problem? She didn't write it. Dr Maya Angelou was chosen as an official poet by Bill Clinton and the UN. Her seven memoirs have sold millions of copies around the world. She is a cultural ...

A poet, memoirist, activist, and educator, Maya Angelou's life story is evidence of resilience, courage, and the written word. From her humble beginnings in the Jim Crow South to her rise as one ...

American icon Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, poet, activist, singer, actress and speaker. During her long and varied career she worked as a journalist in Africa, toured the world as an ...

Remember when Emma Watson travelled the world hiding books in the streets of New York, Paris and London? Never before have we been so attentive on the morning commute, our eyes darting around the ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary ... journalist, film director, poet and public speaker – was evidence of her conviction that anyone could develop a great range of talents ...

The grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet's intellectual property from his father and has bankrupted a company the two set up to manage her legacy, the father claims in ...

Renowned author Dr. Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Dr. Angelou had a diverse career, spanning from civil rights activist to poet. Many were introduced to Dr. Angelou in 1993, when she ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black ...

Among her poems was one celebrating being a Black deaf woman: “Tonight I am going to be Maya Angelou, signing poems that spiral sky high.”Credit...Chad Unger for The New York Times Supported ...

Variations of this quote, the words of the late writer and activist Maya Angelou, have been making the rounds on social media over the past few weeks. Angelou, a sage to those in her inner circle ...

Like Maya Angelou, Giovanni understood the power of performance, bringing her poems to life through dynamic readings that turned poetry into theater. Both women recognized that the African ...